'April Fools,' Lohan says of pregnancy tweet

By CNN Staff

Updated 4:32 PM ET, Tue April 2, 2013

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan poses for a mug shot on Tuesday, March 20, after accepting 90 days in a "locked in" drug rehab facility for misdemeanor charges. Her six years of legal troubles trace back to two drunken driving arrests in 2007 and include other incidents in which she was behind the wheel.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lindsay Lohan appears in court with her attorneys Anthony Falangetti, left, and Mark Heller in Los Angeles on Monday, March 18. She entered pleas of no contest on two misdemeanor charges relating to a traffic accident last summer, and she did not challenge the finding that she violated her shoplifting probation with those convictions.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan's mug shot from July 2007 for driving under the influence.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lindsay Lohan attends her probation hearing at the Airport Courthouse in March 2012 in Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner decided to take Lohan off probation from a 2007 drunken driving case and said that she will no longer have to meet with a probation officer or appear in court on her 2011 shoplifting case, as long as she obeys all laws through May 2014.

Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan's mug shot from October 2011 after she was arrested for probation violations. She was released after posting $100,000 bail.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan is led away in handcuffs at her probation progress report hearing at the Airport Courthouse in October 2011.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan cries next to her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley as she is sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Marsha Revel during her hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in July 2010. Lohan violated her probation in two 2007 drunk driving cases.

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Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan poses for a booking photo after being arrested on DUI charges at Lynwood Jail in November 2007. Lohan voluntarily reported to the facility to serve her minimum 24-hour jail sentence that was part of a plea bargain for two DUI charges.

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Lindsay Lohan is not pregnant, the actress announced Tuesday, refuting herself.

"April Fools. Where's everyone's sense of humor?" the troubled actress wrote Tuesday morning on her verified Twitter account. This after unleashing a retweet storm with three simple words posted April Fool's night: "Its official: pregnant."

Some, but certainly not all, of those following @lindsaylohan went for it hook, line and sinker. Within an hour, it had been retweeted more than 9,000 times.

Lohan's initial tweet of the blessed nonevent has since been deleted.

For some, the kerfuffle underscored how all things Lohan are supercharged:

-- "TELL THEM! only u could make one little joke and make everyone foam at the mouth like idiots," said @timyawn.

-- "dying at everyone who actually believed you hahaha...watch out, it may be on the cover of all the tabloids now," ‏@LoveHasN0Limits replied.

For others, Lohan's joke just made the snark easier. Regarding her query as to the whereabouts of her Twitter followers' sense of humor, @XANAXDREAMS responded, "Gone with ur career."

"The first well-executed and convincing bit of acting you've ever done," said @alexjon.

Predictably, many male retweeters feigned relief.

Even before Lohan's "gotcha," several followers riffed on her well-publicized battle with booze:

"Lindsay Lohan tweeted she's pregnant, which is great because now she'll have someone to get drunk with," tweeted Emmerson McGinnis, a writer.

Others just couldn't contain their (faux) surprise.

"LINDSAY LOHAN IS NOT PREGNANT IS SHE NO STOP REALLY HAHAHAHHA SHUT UP OMG WHAT LOL HAHAHAHHAHAHAH CAN'T CONTROL IT HAHAHAHAHHA WHAT LOVE IT," wrote Dominic Riccitello.

Lohan has spent 250 days in five rehab facilities since January 2007, including one long court-ordered stint after a failed drug test.

She has appeared in court at least 21 times before four Los Angeles judges who have now found her in violation of probation six times and sentenced her to a total of nine months in jail.

And she has spent about two weeks behind bars in six trips to the Los Angeles County jail, served 35 days under house arrest and worked about 67 days of community service at the county morgue.